It reminds me of the scene in Gran Torino when Clint Eastwood eldest son's family gave him a phone with huge numbers and Grabber Extension arm. He got so pissed off he threw them out of the house...
Er, since when do you Yanks do Boxing Day? Does this mean that our crummy health care system is not the only Canadian institution creeping across the border (after Ben Cartwright and James T. Kirk, of course)?
and what I noticed the most is the feel of happiness, warmth,people laughing, and it just made me smile, remembering past xmas's with family and good memories, and to see you Marty in this atmosphere which is so normal down to earth, I think it just humanized you to us who see you as some kind of celebrity with a life so different from many of us who just love reading all you write about and all your adventures, and the people you know. It made me laugh too, but I hate to say but I thought it was a big remote, one of those universal ones, did I not catch it, I think someone said a phone. good video ,
I'm descended from Brits who came to the U.S. in the early 1930s. It's a Cole family tradition!
Thanks, Sandra, for your kind comments! Because I didn't have my bifocals on, I thought it was a huge calculator which I could use sans specs! A giant universal remote I don't need!
Rogue Male: Correction, my grandparents came to Detroit from Bristol, England in the early 1900s. My dad was born in Dearborn, MI in 1915.
In 1935 my grandfather bought a summer cottage in Canada (near Sarnia, Ontario) where the Cole family spent their summers. I suppose my Grandpa chose Canada to remind him of home.
The cottage remains in the Cole family to this day!
Of course Boxing Day is a Detroit tradition. Who can forget Joe "The Brown Bomber" Louis, Tommy "The Hit Man" Hearns, Leon "I Got No Front Teeth" Spinks, "Sugar" Ray Robinson, and "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler?
Can you celebrate Boxing day briefly? Oh, also creeping across the border: Leslie Nielsen, Eugene Levy, Anne Murray, and John Candy (to the extent Candy could creep)
Those are great. I got one for my Dad when he turned 70.
ReplyDeleteErr....
A phone too with big numbers.
Double err....
And a calculator.
I'll stop now.
It reminds me of the scene in Gran Torino when Clint Eastwood eldest son's family gave him a phone with huge numbers and Grabber Extension arm. He got so pissed off he threw them out of the house...
ReplyDeleteEr, since when do you Yanks do Boxing Day? Does this mean that our crummy health care system is not the only Canadian institution creeping across the border (after Ben Cartwright and James T. Kirk, of course)?
ReplyDeleteShe was in Detroit where Boxing Day is a local tradition, due to its proximity to Windsor.
ReplyDeleteand what I noticed the most is the feel of happiness, warmth,people laughing, and it just made me smile, remembering past xmas's with family and good memories, and to see you Marty in this atmosphere which is so normal down to earth, I think it just humanized you to us who see you as some kind of celebrity with a life so different from many of us who just love reading all you write about and all your adventures, and the people you know. It made me laugh too, but I hate to say but I thought it was a big remote, one of those universal ones, did I not catch it, I think someone said a phone. good video ,
ReplyDeleteI'm descended from Brits who came to the U.S. in the early 1930s. It's a Cole family tradition!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sandra, for your kind comments! Because I didn't have my bifocals on, I thought it was a huge calculator which I could use sans specs! A giant universal remote I don't need!
Rogue Male: Correction, my grandparents came to Detroit from Bristol, England in the early 1900s. My dad was born in Dearborn, MI in 1915.
ReplyDeleteIn 1935 my grandfather bought a summer cottage in Canada (near Sarnia, Ontario) where the Cole family spent their summers. I suppose my Grandpa chose Canada to remind him of home.
The cottage remains in the Cole family to this day!
Al born and raised in Detroit almost 70 years ago and first I ever heard that Boxing Day was a Detroit tradition.
ReplyDeleteOf course Boxing Day is a Detroit tradition. Who can forget Joe "The Brown Bomber" Louis, Tommy "The Hit Man" Hearns, Leon "I Got No Front Teeth" Spinks, "Sugar" Ray Robinson, and "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler?
ReplyDeleteJust don't ask them to share their bread pudding.
Well, its not a DETROIT tradition, just a Brit tradition...
ReplyDeleteDetroit tradition my ass, I think it was a New Jersey tradition when Vito gave a boxer some cement boxing shoes.
ReplyDeleteSo...the nice Bristols are a family tradition...?;)
ReplyDeleteCan you celebrate Boxing day briefly?
ReplyDeleteOh, also creeping across the border: Leslie Nielsen, Eugene Levy, Anne Murray, and John Candy (to the extent Candy could creep)
Don't forget Mary Pickford and Fay Wray...Raymond Massey...Walter Pidgeon...Glenn Ford...
ReplyDeleteDana Carvey, Martin Short...
ReplyDelete